On African Music by Kofi Agawu
Written by one of the best-known academic writers on African music, On African Music is a collection of seven essays offering a wide-ranging discussion of the animating structures of African music while reflecting on the scholarship they have elicited.
Kofi Agawu is Distinguished Professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and previously taught at Princeton University, Yale University, Cornell University, and King's College London. His books include Playing with Signs (1991), African Rhythm (1996), Music as Discourse (2008) and The African Imagination in Music (2016). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1991), the Dent Medal (1992), and the Harrison Medal (2009). He was Music Theorist in Residence for the Dutch-Flemish Music Theory Society in 2008-09 and George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University in 2012-13. A Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Member of the Royal Musical Association.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780197664070 |
| ISBN 10 | 0197664075 |
| Title | On African Music |
| Author | Kofi Agawu |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2023-07-17 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
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